A few years ago I posted here about finally meeting my birth father, some 50 years after the fact. He's a yachtsman who wrote a book and made a film about his solo round-the-world voyage in 82-3. Both are worth seeking out, but the book has just been translated in english (he's a Quebecois francophone), and can be found here:
'Jean-du-Sud & the Magick Byrd' by Yves Gélinas. If you'd rather hear it as a podcast, narrated by the author, it's available here:
https://www.59-north.com/onthewindpodca ... ud-preview. I haven't tried either link, and neither has he, so tell me if they don't work. I'm one of the folks who proofed the manuscript for translation errors, so if I missed any, don't tell me.
When I watched his film for the first* time, some 5 years ago, I was excited to see a scene in which he, alone on his yacht, played a tune on a bamboo simple system flute. This would have been more than a decade before I began fluting, and 30 years before I discovered who he was and got in contact.
*The ironic thing is that I can recall watching the first half of his film in my early teens as a young sea scout, long before I knew I was related. It had been broadcast in Canada on television. My memory says that we watched it on 16mm film, but it's as likely that someone recorded it to VHS.